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Ever go to old comiskey? Place was a #### hole. The current incarnation of US Cellular is a fine place to take in a game. As Eddo said, it has much better sightlines that it's much more praised neighbor, Comerica.

Of course, there's no reason baseball fans should feel obligated to call the team by the sponsor name anyway, but I seem to be alone in that position.

Playing it straight down the middle, I still call it Pac Bell. That and PNC might be the only new corporate names I've adopted. (Busch and Wrigley are grandfathered in of course.) I generally skip/can't remember/can't keep straight the corp entities for Seattle, Cincy, Detroit, Texas. I don't think I know San Diego's. But Pac Bell just sounded right, it being a "classic" corporate name anyway. I wish a more stately sounding corporation had sponsored Pittsburgh. I guess the BOB was OK but are they still the BOB?

But then I still make a point of calling them the Devil Rays from time to time.

The Cell sucked initially but now it is a very nice place to watch a game.

As long as it isn't crowded thus forcing you into crappy seats. The Cell is like the Vet in that if 18,000 people show up you can get great seats and relatively cheap but if everybody shows up and you were late in purchasing tickets you're going to sit in some crappy seats.

I think White Sox fans should get extra credit in the anti-corporate contest as we have successfully taken corporate naming rights that someone paid a ton of cash for and turned it into a term of endearment that literally means "a place they hold you after you have committed a crime".

That's pretty cool.

But then again, I also like the upper deck cause I like the walk-up crowd, and it's so fricking cheap.

As long as it isn't crowded thus forcing you into crappy seats. The Cell is like the Vet in that if 18,000 people show up you can get great seats and relatively cheap but if everybody shows up and you were late in purchasing tickets you're going to sit in some crappy seats.

That is try in the majority of ball parks IMO. Watching a game in sold out Camden is no fun.